legality

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legality

  • /liˈɡælɪti/ Canada, US

Rhymes with -ælɪti

noun legalities

  1. countable, uncountable Lawfulness. Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.

    Similar: legalness · Opposite: unlawfulness, lawlessness, illegality, illegalness, unlaw

  2. countable, in plural, uncountable Synonym of legalistics (the legal aspects of an issue or deed).

    Similar: legalistics

  3. countable, dated, obsolete, uncountable Synonym of chuck-a-luck. There was one game in particular called “legality,” in which the managers of the establishment played against all comers. It was a game in which six numbers were marked upon a board, the players staked upon a number, the keeper of the bank threw against the players, and according to whether they wer

    Similar: chuck-a-luck

Similar: lawfulness, legality, legalness · Opposite: illegality

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: lawfulness, lawfully, legitimate, legitimization, legitimation, legitimacy, rule, validity, legal, admissibility, permissibility, law, statutory, constitutionality, propriety, regularity

noun

Similar: lawfulness, legality, legalness · Opposite: illegality

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noun lawfulness

Españollegalidad
Kiswahiliuhalali
Portuguêslegalidade
Françaislégalité
DeutschLegalität, Rechtmäßigkeit
Italianolegalità
Ελληνικάνομιμότητα nomimótita
Românălegalitate
Русскийзако́нность zakónnostʹ, лега́льность legálʹnostʹ
العربيةقَانُونِيَّة qānūniyya, مَشْرُوعِيَّة mašrūʕiyya

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@misc{legality_2026,
  title = {legality},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/legality},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}